EVGA releases GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 ELITE Gaming GPUs with 12Gbps memory

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EVGA releases GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 ELITE Gaming GPUs with 12Gbps memory

EVGA has released two new ELITE versions of their GTX 1080Ti FTW3 GPU, offering the same core clock speeds and cooling solution as their standard FTW3 Gaming counterparts but offer enhanced memory clock speeds and new white and black GPU shroud colour options.

The only performance upgrade here is a 9% increase in memory clock speeds when compared to EVGA's standard GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 Gaming model, though this will only improve this GPU's performance in select circumstances, where the GPU is bandwidth constrained.

This increased the memory bandwidth of the GTX 1080 Ti from 484GB/s to 528GB/s, allowing this new model to surpass the 500GB/s barrier to offer half a terabyte per second of memory bandwidth.

Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti FE

EVGA GTX 1080 Ti SC2

EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW 3 Gaming

EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 Elite

GPU

GP102

GP102

GP102

GP102

CUDA Cores

3584

3584

3584

3584

Base Clock Speed

1480MHz

1556MHz

1569MHz

1569MHz

Boost Clock Speed

1582MHz

1670MHz

1683MHz

1683MHz

VRAM

11GB

11GB

11GB

11GB

VRAM Type

GDDR5X

GDDR5X

GDDR5X

GDDR5X

Memory Clock Speed

11016MHz

110016MHz

110016MHz

12006MHz

Cooling

Air Reference

Air iCX

Air iCX

Hybrid

VRM

7+2

7+2

10+2

10+2

Power

8+6 pin

8+6-pin

8+8 Pin

8+8 Pin

Max Power Draw

250W

250W

280W

280W

BIOS Chips

1

1

2

2

RGB?

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

On EVGA's own website both of these new Elite GTX 1080 Ti FTW models are listed with prices of $849.99, with both the white and black versions coming with three-year warranties.

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